Darryn Pegram and Peter Laurenson crossing Gunsight Pass with Franklin Ridge and Sabine Valley beyond. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography

Through the gunsight

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Shaun Barnett makes a winter crossing of this unnamed pass in Nelson Lakes

New Zealand mountain weather. Changeable, dramatic, unpredictable. How many hours do trampers devote to debating the weather? We all hope for a good forecast. Plan-A, game on. An atrocious forecast is almost as easy to deal with: stay at home or change to Plan-B. But a marginal report always proves harder. What tricks will the […]
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